The Threshold (2015)

The Threshold: Directed by Pushan Kripalani. With Neena Gupta, Rajit Kapoor, Dhanendra Kawde. A North Indian couple, in their early 60s, at their mountain retreat. Their son has just gotten married, a reception has ended and all the guests have left. She chooses this moment to tell her husband that she is leaving. What follows is an endless day: the avalanche of this long-gathering decision and what it means to a decades-long relationship. Fragments of conversations, silence and chaos, as nostalgia mingles with menace and tenderness with cruelty. What will they succeed in rescuing against the landslide of memory and emotion?

“The Threshold – a sixty something couple Rinku (Neena Gupta) and Raj (Rajit Kapoor) has just seen off guests after their sonu0026#39;s wedding reception at their mountain retreat, a beautiful bungalow by the stream. This is when Rinku tells Raj about her decision to leave him and go away.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Threshold is about the penultimate day for the married couple living together and an introspection about the many years together, but not the positives. It is Rinkuu0026#39;s reproach to Raj about all that she has had to bear because of misogyny, the patriarchal nature, the lack of empathy and how she is no longer able to compromise with the attitude. Raj doesnu0026#39;t quietly surrender either – at first he offers explanations and soon, it turns into an affair of trading charges containing barbs. Itu0026#39;s a long day and night with tumultuous emotions, but always remaining grounded to their immense probability of becoming the story of every couple that lives in a long matrimony. Itu0026#39;s so often that we take the spouse for granted.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDirector Pushan Kripalani directs the two veterans with a natural flair. Neena Gupta has the upper hand, but Rajit Kapoor gives a great underdog performance, mostly being at the receiving end of the barbs. The Threshold is a tad slow and lacks additional characters, but then I gauge that on the penultimate day of the dreaded separation, thereu0026#39;s no space for a third person in the relationship.”